Word: harassments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain. First the Germans in 1940 concentrated hundreds of planes on a single target in each raid, whereas the British last week fanned out and pecked at scattered targets with relatively small forces of planes on each. And second, the major R.A.F. effort was thrown into sweeps intended to harass the Germans along the invasion coast rather than to cut to the heart of the German war effort...
...seven consecutive days before General Douglas MacArthur left Corregidor, the War Department's Philippine communiqués had a pleasant, unchanging sameness. U.S. scouting units continued to harass enemy communications. A Japanese cruiser fired several shells into the port of Cebu, but the slight damage inflicted hardly made the effort worthwhile. Another Jap division was landed at Mindanao, south of Luzon. Somehow-the means were not disclosed-a 3,000-ton enemy tanker was sunk. Otherwise, all was quiet in the Philippines...
...Catholics seemingly back up the State Department stand. Monsignor Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the ringing voice of the U.S. hierarchy, declared last week that "the liberty and institutions" of the U.S. are today threatened by the same "rampant totalitarian military forces which harass the Church and all that the Church has built." This description obviously applied to Japan. Significantly, Monsignor Ready made his remarks at a service attended by the Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicoganani, who will undoubtedly pass them on to the Vatican as a good indication...
Anyone who thinks his country might be invaded-which means anyone now alive-would do well to read "Yank" Levy's Guerrilla Warfare-for instructions on how to harass invaders. Author Levy, 44, a Canadian-born soldier of fortune, now instructor of British Home Guards, has compiled a civilian's manual of mayhem and informal murder. His book is a brief, businesslike discussion of contemporary strategy, tactics and tricks for people caught in an invasion, with dozens of helpful hints on hamstringing, backstabbing, sniping and other dust-biting dodges. Author Levy urges householders to organize right away, study...
...Navy and its air service can harass Japanese shipping and outposts by surface, submarine and aircraft-carrier raids, constantly striking and then retiring to the main U.S. base in Pearl Harbor. Such raids cannot win the war. They cannot even protect U.S. shipping routes to the Allied forces in Australia and the Middle East, or supply lines to Russia, India and China...